Pantagraph.com: Vets seek job applicant names
Today at Pantagraph.com,
Veterans organizations and minority groups say Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration should release information about unsuccessful applicants for state jobs.Topinka / Birkett should be hammering away at these abuses. Democrats in Chicago keep lists of job applicants by political sponser and race. They're not doing it to promote diversity in the workplace.
They argue the information must be public so people can tell whether the state is following laws that give veterans preference in hiring and seek to recruit more minorities.
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The American Legion, a driving force behind the veterans preference rule, believes jobs in public service should be open to public scrutiny.
"All the hiring practices should be open and aboveboard so that the people can know if the veterans preference was given," Prosser said.
Roy Williams Jr., executive director of the Illinois Association of Minorities in Government, said the administration should "know better" than to withhold the hiring lists.
Williams said he is disturbed by the allegations of misconduct, adding that Blagojevich should reward experienced, competent employees by promoting from within state government rather than hiring outsiders with political connections.
2 comments:
The veterans of this state need to confront Gov. Blagojevich at every opportunity to demand justice without delay. Veterans must not accepte a few BS platitudes made by Rod. These disgraceful practices must stop now, or Rod and his cronies must be dumped on their political butts come November 7!
With all due respect to Bill Barr who otherwise has some interesting things to say, the issue of SINGLE PARENT FAMILY(IES) IS IS IS an ISSUE and not just values rhetoric. Remember the 1960 Sen Monihyan prediction/white paper about 25% African American illegitimacy/single motherhood and 6% white. Well it is over 50% and in some areas 75% plus for African Americans and now 25% for whites. That is the single best indicator of dysfunctional behavior and a strong indicator of poverty (as are race, educational background, wealth of parents, and geography) That does not mean that there are not good single moms or that many great children come out of difficult backgrounds but it does mean that statistically this is a serious serious issue. It is a policy issue because it has real consequences. Conservatives are right to an extent in diagnosing the problem even if they do not have the best solution.
2. Tom Roeser is not a racist. He may be a cumudgreon. He may not be PC. He did a lot of minorities in the Federal Government and at Quaker Oats. He says things that many people used to say publicly but now are afraid to say because of the PC and race police, some shouldn’t be said, but it doesn’t cause a very good nor honest dialogue or debate.
3. Pat Hickey is right. Obama was not well liked by other Black/African American elected officials. Monique Davis and Mary Flowers were good to him. Sen. Donne Trotter (also light skinned and straightens his hair) had many racial slurs that would of been condemned if used by any white politicians. Even Sen Ricky Hendon who supported him for US Senate would make fun of him, his diction, his body movements. Cong Jackson said before Obama ran for US Senate that he was not Black enough and to explain the African daddy and White mommy grew up in Hawaii would not fly in Chicago. Jackson and Meeks bothed jumped on the Obama for Senate bandwagon early and it gave him cover in the African American community. Obama did not have any like nor respect among his peers–they viewed him as an outsider, too white, and not one of them. They literally made fun of him using terms tht might get my post deleted.
4. Pat Hickey probably has more experience and did more for the African American community in Chicago than Obama did. Obama NEVER grew up with his “Black side”. He did not “grow up black”. Obama always went to elite private schools including a Muslim one in Indonesia (one of his step dads was Muslim). Obama did not go to Chicago Public Schools–he didn’t even go to the underfunded struggling Catholic schools like Hickeys Leo. Obama has no roots in chicago nor in the African American community. He worked for the con artist pro Daley UNO of alderman Danny Solis and was a prof at the U of C (in Hyde Park). He grew up “white”. He grew up Hawaii and internationally. Obama does not know the Chicago nor African American experience first hand–that does not mean that he cannot be a good legislator but the real binding ties are not there. Obama is a good guy–I know him a little personally, and has some great qualities BUT he is a media creation–there is not a lot of substance nor accomplishment there, not YET at anyrate. Thank you Hickey for helping out good schools helping out African Americans.
5. Tom Roeser asking the questions he is asking is not racist nor wrong. Obama certainly gives credit to his mother and he goes visits his white family in Hawaii but to not recognize that Obama is going out of his way, and not in a normal way to be more Black, and possibly for political reasons is not something racist nor illogical. I do not believe that Obama needs to step, play basketball or listen to Snoop Doggy Dogg let alone some 102.7 dusties or even Gospel BUT Obama has NO “Black experience” beyond his skin color, and his political activities.
6. Most African American children living in Public Housing or being forced out of Public Housing with a BLACK single mother and NOT going to Harvard or living in Hawaii or Indonesia do NOT identify with Obama. Private schools. International Travel. Being around white people.
Harvard. Being a media darling that cannot be criticized. The African American children can adore him and admire him but they really cannot identify with him.
7. Alan Keyes did make an interesting historical note, one that people like Toni Morrison and Alex Haley think is important (I voted for Obama and not Keyes) that Obama is NOT a descendant of slaves. His father was not impovershed from Africa but actually educated, had opportunity, and was going to Harvard, he just decided for whatever reason to leave his son. Obama was not the first nor will he be the last person without a father in his life. The DJ on 102.7 calls them “Sperm donors” (African American DJ on an African American oriented radio station HIGHLY critical of deadbeat dads)
His dad abandoning him is not extraordinary.
What is extraordinary is his white mother protecting him, not abandoning him to government or social service agencies, giving him the best educational opportunities, not raising him in crime infested neighborhoods in Chicago on the West or South Sides, and giving him private education at good schools, marrying rich men, and giving him international travel opportunities. Not many African American Males from the South Side of Chicago (or West Side or suburbs or any side) have white mamas (besides Baby O and Judge Anne Burke), travel internationally, live in Hawaii, never live with Black people, and go to Harvard. Clarence Thomas (I do not agree with him by the way) growing up in the deep south and being trained by Catholic nuns or even Alan Keyes as an Army brat and trained with U of C Allan Bloom is much more impressive and much more “Black”. Obama does not have slave roots which some think makes him able to stand taller remember in the movie with Wesley Snipes as a Heroin dealer when the Nigerians call him “Akkata” (cotton picker)
Should there be affirmative action for non slaves? Is restitution for slavery based on race or historical slaves? Are their historical memories and group consciousness?–if so does Obama have any claim to this one?
I like Obama. I don’t like any politician to be given a free pass and fawned over. I am not considered a conservative, but am sympathetic to some ideas, and don’t believe everyone who is a conservative is a racist. I don’t believe Tom Roeser is a racist. I believe the questions he brings up are valid. I think Obama has been exagerratd.
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